Trade Finance Distribution Initiative Podcast TFDi Podcast
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The Trade Finance Distribution Initiative Podcast brings you news, insights, and interviews from members and experts around the trade finance world. We look at market trends, opportunities, and challenges when distributing or investing in trade finance.
To view our guests, watch the video recordings of all our podcasts on our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChogfanVqPjHQ_OumGJgrEA
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Episode 36: Emerald Capital 'Sub-Saharan Africa is the main focus, and the Middle East'
In our latest podcast we catch up with Emerald Capital, an alternative lender specialising in trade finance solutions. Its focus is on short-term financing on a revolving basis, priding themselves on making quick and flexible lending decisions to help grow their clients’ businesses.
In this month’s episode, Director, Moritz Hill, discusses the evolution of the company and how it grew out of the pandemic, AI applications, and why Emerald Capital decided to sponsor the Trade Finance Investor Day.
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A&T Alpha Credit, ‘The main differentiating point is the liquidity we can provide’.
The TFDi’s latest podcast is out and this month it’s our chance to speak to Timothée Bloch, the Co-Founder at A&T Alpha Credit.
A&T Alpha credit is based in Geneva and specialises in structured financing for SMEs, with a core expertise in structuring private debt products aimed at financing working capital needs.
The company’s aim, ‘to facilitate the direct allocation of liquidity towards real economy financing - when traditional lenders no longer fulfil their mission’.
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Episode 34: Atlendis, 'We pair it up with something very new, very exotic: the crypto ecosystem'
In our latest podcast we speak to one of the latest members of the TFDi, Atlendis.
Alexis Masseron is the CEO of Atlendis which enables users to lend digital assets to real-world businesses on-chain, filling the gap that traditional finance has not been able to cover. Leveraging blockchain technology and open banking.
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Episode 33: Kyriba, ‘Our role as an organisation is to provide technology.’
In our latest podcast we speak to one of the latest members of the TFDi, Almila Arikan Sarbanoglu. She is Director, Working Capital - Receivables Finance at Kyriba.
Kyriba is a leader in cloud treasury and finance solutions, delivering mission-critical capabilities for cash and risk management, payments and working capital solutions.
More than 2,000 clients worldwide rely on Kyriba to see, protect and grow their liquidity.
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Episode 32: TradeRiver, ‘The challenge lies in the legal framework...’
Our latest podcast is now live where we’ve been discussing the impact of the Electronic Trade Documents Act, amongst other things.
Richard Fossett is the CEO and Founder of TradeRiver. The company is one of the most recent to become a member of the TFDi.
TradeRiver is an alternative finance provider that has delivered more than £380m of Working Capital to SMEs in the UK... processing more than 7,000 individual client payments and has more than 1000 suppliers registered in 45 countries.
We even talk about Richard’s fascinating previous career of running hotels in the Middle East.
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Episode 31: AP Trade Finance: ‘Ultimately, we’re looking into AI for risk mitigation.’
Our latest guest on the TFDi podcast is Ernesto Vila, the CEO of AP Trade Finance.
APTF is a leading provider of innovative trade finance solutions for SMEs targeting those which are looking to expand their business operations on an international scale.
The company’s become the latest member of the TFDi.
Ernesto discusses APTF’s use of technology, blockchain and AI.
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